Chalcedon
Asia Minor
Chalcedon, a Greek city on the eastern shore of the Bosphorus in Bithynia, directly opposite Constantinople, is most renowned as the site of the Fourth Ecumenical Council in 451 CE.
12 most-discussed ideas
Teachers who lived here
Works composed here
- 451
The Fourth Ecumenical Council. The Council of Chalcedon
Ideas shaped here
Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Chalcedon. Click any to trace the idea across time and place.
- Ecumenical Council21 passages
- Council of Chalcedon (451)19 passages
- Two Natures of Christ8 passages
- Eutychianism6 passages
- Hypostatic Union5 passages
- Excommunication & Penitential Discipline5 passages
- Papal Primacy5 passages
- Holy Orders (Ordination)5 passages
- Full Humanity of Christ3 passages
- Virgin Birth3 passages
- Rule of Faith3 passages
- Monasticism3 passages